Overview for Primary Schools
Caulfield South Weather Station is drawing a UV map for our area. This is an important map that will show us all exactly how much UV rays are hitting us from the sun. The UV & Me Project is your opportunity to join in this scientific project and become a UV measuring station that will help draw this map.
It is the ability to work together which determines success.
The UV & Me Project
A real scientific project researching exactly how much UV light from the sun we experience living where we do. Typically, a regular schedule is setup and a team of students will be responsible for determining what the UV index is at a particular time. This can then be compared with other published UV Index data (available online) and the difference noted.
A record is kept and month by month submitted back to Caulfield South Weather Station for analysis and inclusion for the UV map.
The school will be required to also design and purchase a real UV flag that can be used on your existing flag pole. The purpose of this is to allow the entire school (and surrounding community) to benefit from your research. (Of course a good research project is useless without communicating it to others.)
Your Successful UV & Me Project
A successful UV & Me Project is implemented during the spring/summer months.
UV focussed activities can be designed to teach all about UV and lead in to more learning about our weather.
'Magic' UV beads are available for purchase from Caulfield South Weather Station which are truly amazing. They not only make very unique gifts, but they inspire a great deal of inquiry into what UV is and why we need to be concerned about it. The are an inexpensive, totally safe product that change from a white colour to their particular colour (say yellow or purple or blue...) when they are struc by UV light from the sun. They can be made into fashionable bangles, threaded onto clothes, attached to backpacks and a million other uses and are also waterproof! You can enquire more about these amazing UV beads here.